How To Use Maudlin In A Sentence

The film became too maudlin for its own good in its final moments.
He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
Initially, the tribal percussion and sometimes maudlin tone may not sit well.

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Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
Maudlin, but trying not to show it, Patrick observes the rigmarole unfold as predicted. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing.
The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.
The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
This thin volume of india-ink illustrations took the term maudlin up a notch and failed miserably to engage. Notes from the peanut gallery
He calculated that he could not beat either Heath or Maudling, and he preferred to avoid the contest.
It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there.
Let me be maudlin and say the book is a sheer delight.
She never particularly cared for them, finding the first too rigid and artificial, the second too prolix and maudlin.
As you can see from my summation, this is an optimistic work, but thanks to focused direction by Bridget Ryan and a measured, intelligent, and believable script, this production manages to be upbeat without being Pollyannaish or maudlin.
Alexei Sayle would adopt a maudlin, nostalgic whine and a watery half-smile as he recalled the glories of the music hall.
Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film.
Their debut song was a maudlin affair - to say the least - that dredged up just about every unforgiven sin and memory in his poor tortured soul.
Naturally, the show has its share of touchy-feely and maudlin moments, and the sort of self-examination that some of us would have a hard time acknowledging to ourselves, let alone sharing with thousands of strangers.
Following the models set in lauded tales from "A Christmas Carol" to "Mary Poppins", the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one. The Willoughbys: Summary and book reviews of The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry.
The maudlin clamor of "a pore lone lidy 'oos' subing 'ad desarted' er" failed to arouse anyone's curiosity. World's War Events, Vol. I
Its massive irony is that the magically maudlin piano refrain and chronically depressed vocal that gives this song all the power, soul and verve that are so glaringly missing from the rest of the album.
When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel?
Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin.
Maudling was clever, lazy, a sot and deeply corrupt.
Diana's estate sues them because… well, it's kitsch and tacky and maudlin and icky, isn't it?
maudlin expressions of sympathy
Arntzenius, F. and T. Maudlin, 2000, “T.me T.avel and Modern Physics,” in T.e Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2000 Edition), E.N. Zalta (ed.), URL =. Time Machines
He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’
His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers.
This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty.
The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin.
Alternately maudlin and accusatory, the letter plays on terrorism fears by calling a cephalosporin ban a "food security issue" affecting "the number of animals available for the food supply. Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably!
Geez Forest, Same country maudlin song, different 'sanger';) pegged to 11 '. dick said: Knowledge is Power
The mood is subdued, sombre and on the right side of maudlin. Times, Sunday Times
When my mother died, I gave a maudlin eulogy about all the days we spent together when I was small, shopping at Hink's department store and eating peeled apricots and lying down for naps in the big bed under the gable window of her bedroom. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
They whined insolently, and in maudlin tones begged me for pennies, and worse. A VISION OF THE NIGHT
Tom Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheeks; poor Cobler is there when it is leathery; Esau betrays himself by hairs, Maudlin by weeping; and as for the "Bishop that burneth" the explanation is complicated. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere _ignavia_ and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears. Latter-Day Pamphlets
Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental.
Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin.
Nor was this all-pervading caress a something that cloyed with too great sweetness; nor was it sickly sentimental; nor was it maudlin with love's madness. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
Next time you get the heave ho, or give the heave-ho, don't get all bitter and depressed; get sentimental and maudlin!
But throw in the fact that 50/50 is an often hilarious comedy co-produced by and co-starring Seth Rogen (who worked with Reiser on Da Ali G Show while Reiser was undergoing treatment), and you have a very special, refreshingly personal movie that will make both men and women laugh (without being silly or gross) and cry (without being maudlin). Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: 50/50 -- Seth Rogen Grows Up (Sort of) for Cancer Comedy
The film is an elegiac poem, one with deep felt un-maudlin sympathy.
It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour.
Beachy Head might not always persuade or convince as drama, but its poetic rather than maudlin mood and questioning tone could stick with you. Times, Sunday Times
Mary Magdalene inspires, these women say, because she was not a weakling -- the weeping Magdalene whose name begat the English word "maudlin" but a person of strength and character. The Bible's Lost Stories
But he's not going to get too maudlin. Times, Sunday Times
And that done, Trenchard -- who affected the condition known as maudlin drunk -- must needs protest almost in tears how profound was his love for Richard, and insist that the boy return with him to the Bell Inn, that they might pledge each other. Mistress Wilding
The problem is lack of variety: one song merges indistinguishably into another, the surfeit of emotion sounding more maudlin by the minute.
There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied.
The song starts as a maudlin waltz, a mandolin accented moment of regret that finds Drootin's confused character moving ‘through the town’ before the sun is up.
And as one might have expected, "Titanic," James Cameron's maudlin megahit movie, is being rereleased—in 3-D, of course. Titanic Centennial Commemorations Sink to New Lows
Even the society of this self-possessed and self-opinionated young woman was preferable to being abandoned to his own maudlin company. STAGE FRIGHT
Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.
There were no maudlin declarations of love or anything of that sort…yet still it was made clear on both sides how important the other was and how much our time together meant.
Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach. The Complete Works of Whittier
Similarly, Darcy's music privileges a quaintly macabre sensibility; there's an echo of Appalachian murder ballads and maudlin clipper-ship shanties.
Does it bother you that there's also a maudlin aspect?
Okay, at the risk of revealing my soggy, maudlin underbelly ... this made me a smidgen weepy. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism.
The story in this film is a bit maudlin; we are seeing the end of a brilliant career rather than an ongoing saga.
You could roll your eyes at her maudlin excesses and her spiritual imperiousness, but you couldn't deny her clout, or her courage.
This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful. Tuesdays With Morrie: Summary and book reviews of Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.
18 To the porcelain connoisseur Warren Cox, the proliferation of willowware occurred to the detriment of good taste: “Nothing could better exemplify the utter dearth of aesthetic consciousness than the stupid copying of this design which lacks every element of true Chinese painting and any real claim to beauty whatsoever, and the maudlin stories wrought about it to please the sentimental old ladies of the late eighteenth century.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
Robin Hood invites the shepherds and shepherdesses of the Vale of Belvoir to a feast in Sherwood Forest, but the feast is marred by the arts of the witch Maudlin, aided by her familiar, Puck-Hairy.
When she left the city, he dispatched ridiculously "spoony" telegrams to her in Baltimore, and in his daily letters indulged in a maudlin sentimentality that might have inspired the envy of a sighing Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
He rarely speaks, yet you suspect that within him lies a sentimental heart, judging from his periodic bouts of maudlin violence. Times, Sunday Times
This pellicle is also said to have a connection with the heart, which arrangement furnishes a decidedly curious explanation of the mechanism of sympathetic and maudlin lachrymation. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
The other is an annual excuse for ‘Highland’ dress and maudlin booze-ups.
For a while it became the archetypal maudlin pub drinking song: imagine it lugubriously belted out at closing time with a skinful of beer lubricating every voice.
I hated those mindless, endless Indian tragicomedies, with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.
She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments.
When it outsold his new album of maudlin country ballads the singer must have felt he had begun to lose the battle with his own myth. Times, Sunday Times
I nodded, smiling now at the cheesiness of the moment, particularly as a maudlin pop song came on the jukebox.
Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes.
Those who expected to find him maudlin, helpless, disconsolate, shrank from the cold, hard eyes and truculent voice that bade them "begone," and "leave him with his dead. Drift from Two Shores
I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental.
I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events.
Sentimental photographs of high quality continue the maudlin iconography of Indians as last representatives of a fine and more noble pristine past, oppressed by crude invaders.
Some of the maudlin rubbish in the popular songs of the day still survive to add their melancholic sloppiness to the supply produced today, which is more than sufficient.
But no matter how you feel about their all-conquering brand of maudlin songcraft, Travis haven't changed.
I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia.
Mr. Carrey may be consciously steering his movies toward maudlin pop psychology.
The griever is expected, after missing a few days of work, to act normal, to show no emotion that may be seen as sad, maudlin, angry, or grief-stricken. Society and Death « Colleen Anderson
Religious workers are prone to overlook all other systems but their own, and maudlin sentimentalists have no use for law, Divine or human. Criminal Anthropology from a Canadian View-Point
‘The Breaking Heart’ is an adagio with somewhat maudlin overtones.
What kind of maudlin artificer do they think God is? El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Andrew
Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure.
And being led and tempted on by this remorseful thought into a condition which the evil – minded class before referred to would term the maudlin state or stage of drunkenness, it occurred to Mr Swiveller to cast his hat upon the ground, and moan, crying aloud that he was an unhappy orphan, and that if he had not been an unhappy orphan things had never come to this. The Old Curiosity Shop
Hoskin was a case in point: he had left the tiny Cornish village of Maudlin, near Bodmin, where he had grown up, and was thrilled to have his own bedsit in the market town of St Austell, where he made his new "friends". 'Mate crime' fears for people with learning disabilities
To those who fell victim to my Friday night frazzle, as recipients of either the maudlin or irrationally ranting and offensive, please help yourself to the usual ameliorations and apologies from the box in the corner.
Young hints at the anguish but refuses to become maudlin. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was this all-pervading caress a something that cloyed with too great sweetness; nor was it sickly sentimental; nor was it maudlin with love's madness. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way.
Beachy Head might not always persuade or convince as drama, but its poetic rather than maudlin mood and questioning tone could stick with you. Times, Sunday Times
Beachy Head might not always persuade or convince as drama, but its poetic rather than maudlin mood and questioning tone could stick with you. Times, Sunday Times
This is a maudlin film about life, love and… well, you get the picture.
There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her. The Last Chronicle of Barset
Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality.
Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure.
But what follows is not a maudlin melodrama, no matter what conclusions you may draw from that surely unimpressive premise.
At least I was not firing off maudlin emails to any exes out there (better check my outbox just in case).
They had one crude but catchy hit followed by a maudlin and sappy second single.
Sadly, it ends up being little more than a maudlin mess - a film that will leave almost no one satisfied.
After all, Bollywood musicals possess the same excessive sentiment and diluvial instrumentation as the modern American musical, but seldom does the former give way to maudlin or milquetoast outcomes.
Mary Magdalene inspires, these women say, because she was not a weakling -- the weeping Magdalene whose name begat the English word "maudlin" but a person of strength and character. The Bible's Lost Stories
Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits.
Elsewhere in the Observer the madding crowd strives away like billy-o, just as it did in the days of Richard Nixon and Reginald Maudling, but for those needing a refuge from the weekly din there's still the cool sequester'd vale inhabited by Azed. Azed: a giant among crosswords
The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in Annotations
It's a rather maudlin ballad about a grocer who is having a bad day. Times, Sunday Times
The impeccable timing of all the actors helps make Le Rire de la mer laugh-out-loud funny all the way through, and ultimately quite moving, without a single detour into maudlin.
Still, it's otherwise a very observant film, only rarely maudlin.
It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin.
What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
Boyle's approach to the material is equally dynamic, but the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce veers uncomfortably between maudlin fantasy, comic whimsy and outright melodrama.
He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories.
Even the story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" (collected in Birds of America), which is ritually cited as Moore's finest work, seems to me mostly an exercise in sentimentality, its supposed mordancy of tone notwithstanding, invoking that most maudlin of narrative devices, a child in distress, without redeeming it. March 2010
You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out.
The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in 69, suggest that Shelley is subtly alluding to the Prince of Wales's sentimental love affair with the twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), a Roman Catholic whom he could not wed legally without forfeiting the crown. The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)
In many ways, the two incumbents are past their sell-by dates, preserved as majors not by reality, but by tradition and maudlin sentimentality.
Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day.
However, she left no mark on film history, not one of her films is a work of art and nowhere did she leave an indelible image of an artist who transcended her maudlin material.
You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out.
When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel?
No plea for contributions was too maudlin.
Although the _Braave_ had vanished, she had left behind her a small legacy of annoyance for me; for while I was still searching the horizon for some sign of her continued existence I became aware of certain raucous sounds issuing from the forecastle, which I was quickly able to identify as the maudlin singing which seamen are so prone to indulge in when they are the worse for liquor. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia.

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